Actor Terry Crews posted a screenshot to Twitter on Sunday of an email from hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons asking Crews to give the agent who allegedly groped him a “pass”:
Message Russell Simmons sent to me regarding my sexual assault case against Adam Venit of @WME:
Dear @UncleRUSH——
NO ONE GETS A PASS pic.twitter.com/DmEvqWVxkc— terry crews (@terrycrews) November 19, 2017
Crews’ tweet comes after news earlier today that Simmons, with then protege Brett Raner watching, allegedly sexually assaulted a 17-year-old model back in 1991:
BREAKING: Model Keri Claussen Khalighi alleges that when she was 17, Russell Simmons sexually assaulted her while Brett Ratner watched. "Help me," she says she asked Ratner. But the filmmaker did nothing, she claims. https://t.co/TITvSMSRRN
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) November 19, 2017
It’s bad:
After she was forced to perform oral sex on Simmons, she says, she rushed to the shower, feeling "disgusting." That's when Simmons allegedly followed Khalighi into the bathroom and briefly anally penetrated her.
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) November 19, 2017
She was a teenager who had just left a farm town in Nebraska with the hope of breaking into the modeling industry. pic.twitter.com/ctOHIOdTF7
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) November 19, 2017
Simmons and Ratner deny the allegations:
Simmons and Ratner both denied Khalighi's account to The Times, with the music mogul insisting the encounter was consensual.
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) November 19, 2017
But … like with Crews’ screenshot … Simmons reached out to the model in what seems like an attempt to get her to stop talking to the press:
But just last week, according to phone records provided by Khalighi, Simmons texted and called her repeatedly after she told him she was considering coming forward with her story. “I’m really in very scary space if u have time," he wrote in one text.
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) November 19, 2017
Crews also posted a screenshot of an email from RadarOnline where the gossip website said it was going to publish a story about Crews soliciting prostitutes. Crews wrote, “1 day after my @GMA interview, @radaronline threatened me w/ a false story abt me hiring 2 hookers at the 2015 Monte Carlo TV Festival. It never went 2 press because it was a lie. This was not a coincidence. I told u they were coming 4 me. I also told you I am ready.”
1 day after my @GMA interview, @radaronline threatened me w/ a false story abt me hiring 2 hookers at the 2015 Monte Carlo TV Festival.
It never went 2 press because it was a lie.
This was not a coincidence. I told u they were coming 4 me. I also told you I am ready. pic.twitter.com/vqLAUknUiO
— terry crews (@terrycrews) November 19, 2017
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Related:
'He knows who he is': Actor Terry Crews says HE was groped by Hollywood exec https://t.co/pHG4Iq01iU
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 11, 2017
This is the man who allegedly groped Terry Crews https://t.co/iD1junS37u
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 4, 2017
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